A Russian propagandist, journalist, editor, and correspondent for Komsomolskaya Pravda, serving as a special political correspondent responsible for covering military conflicts, natural disasters, and other cataclysms.

He has worked in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria, South Ossetia, and the North Caucasus. Since 2014, he has been engaged in propagandistic coverage of the war in Eastern Ukraine, and since the start of the full-scale armed aggression in February 2022, he has regularly produced propaganda reports from the occupied territories.

He is one of the leading figures in the anti-Ukrainian disinformation campaign in Russian media.